Rajat Datta Professor and Chairperson Office: 122 SSS I 91‐11‐26704456 [email protected] Education: PhD, Kings College, University of London, 1990 MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1981 MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1977 BA, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, 1975 Research Interests: Economic history of India with special reference to the 18th century; problems of the transition to the early‐colonial in India; the British Empire in India, ca.1750 to 1830; ecology, subsistence, and crises in early modern India; comparative trajectories of early modern economic development in an Asian perspective; nature of globalization in the early modern world with special reference to India in the world economy Profile: Employment Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Professor, 1999‐ Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Associate Professor, 1992‐1999 University of Burdwan, West Bengal, Reader, 1990‐1992 University of Burdwan, West Bengal, Lecturer, 1981‐1989 Jawaharlal Nehru University, Assistant Professor, 1977‐1979 Fellowships, Grants, and Honours Smuts Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2001 Visiting Scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, August 1990 Commonwealth Scholar to the United Kingdom, 1987‐1990 Other professional achievements Sectional President, Medieval Indian History, Punjab History Conference, Patiala University, 15‐
17 March 2013 Chairperson, Anti‐ragging committee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2012‐ Chairperson, Security Advisory Committee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2017‐2012 Secretary, Medieval History Society, New Delhi, India, an organization of professional historians of the medieval period, 1998‐ Editor, The Medieval History Journal an international journal devoted exclusively to specialized interests in medieval history, published bi‐annually by Sage Publications, New Delhi, London and California General‐Secretary, Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA), 1998‐99 Publications Books Market, Subsistence and Transition in Early Modern India: Perspectives from Eighteenth Century Bengal, New Delhi, Primus, 2013 (forthcoming) Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century, New Delhi, Aakar Publications, 2008 (edited) Society, Economy and the Market: Commercialization in Rural Bengal, c. 1760‐1800, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 2000 Important Articles `Governing Agrarian Diversities: The State and the Making of an Early Modern Economy in Sixteenth Century Northern India’, The Medieval History Journal (special issue on `Handling Diversity: Comparative Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern India and Europe’, (ed.) Thomas Ertl), volume 16, no. 1, October 2013, pp.473‐99. `Looking for an early modern in India’s “medieval” economy’, Presidential Address, Medieval History Section, Punjab History Conference, 45th Session, Punjabi University, Patiala, 15‐17 March 2013, Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, Patiala, 2013, pp. 78‐97. The Commercial Economy of Eastern India under Early‐British Rule: The First Fifty Years, in H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John J. Reid (ed), Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550‐1850, Cambridge University Press, 2012 Indian History from Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries: Problems, Perspectives, and Possibilities, in Rajat Datta (ed.), Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century, New Delhi, Aakar Publications, 2008 Commercialization, Tribute and the Transition from Late Mughal to Early Colonial in India, in The Medieval History Journal, vol.6 no. 2, July‐December 2003, a special issue on Tributary Empires in History: From Antiquity to the Late Medieval (ed.) C.A. Bayly and Peter Bang Markets, Bullion and Bengal’s Commercial Economy: An Eighteenth Century Perspective, in Om Prakash and Denys Lombard (ed.), Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500‐1800, Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1999 From Medieval to Colonial: Markets, Territoriality and the Transition in Eighteenth Century Bengal, Medieval History Journal, vol.2, no.1, 1999 (translated into French as `Territorialité, marchés et transition dans l’Inde du XVIIIc siècle: Le cas du Bengale’ in Geographie et cultures, no 35, automne 2000) Peasant Production and Agrarian Commercialism in a Rice‐Growing Economy: Some Notes on a Comparative Perspective and the Case of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century, in Peter Robb (ed.), Meanings of Agriculture: Essays in South Asian History and Economics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1996 Lecture Courses Number P11202 M31401 M31415 M31419 Title The Medieval World Rural Society in Medieval India Rural Society & Economy: 18th Century India State, Society and Economy: 18th Century India Seminar Courses Number M32407 M32405 P32409 P32410 Title Intensive Study of a Region Aspects of Social History of Medieval India Social Structure of a Region Economic History of a Region Outline and Readings PDF PDF PDF PDF